Poet Quotes

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

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Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

I was born with my eyes turned inward.

... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...

... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

Birds are the eyes of Heaven.

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

Being poet is my choicesless choice.

I'm a poet and It's my choiceless choice.

You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!

I have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.

So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!

Poetry is and should not be explained It’s not a theory not a formula or a set patternIt’s a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image

There is something so innocent about blank pagesThat I can't lie to them about my existence

Don't you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return.

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My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

To live day by dayIs not to live at all.

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

No poet can stay alive solely in his/her poetry etched in papers, it is the reader audience in whom the poets breath forever.......

[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

There is no apology for passion

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me? [ i do…]

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

when you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it

Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy

This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose, " Therese answered conscientiously.